Guinea Pig
Story by CalexTheNeko on SoFurry
Whoops forgot to post this!
This was a quick Flash Fiction commission I had written for
This is a human centric shrinking story, no fluffs around so you've been warned. It's a short 1000 word story about a man working on an experiment with a guinea pig. But he's been exposed to his own shrinking serum and soon finds himself getting smaller, and smaller. Can he find the antidote or is he doomed to become microscopic and smaller?
Guinea Pig
This situation was less than ideal…
Mason’s pants were down around his ankles and his shirt now hung down to his knees and was getting bigger on him by the second. The vial with the potion that had caused this was sitting broken on the lab bench. Now that it had spilled and made contact with Mason’s skin he was shrinking quickly. Already he was eye level with the side of the bench and his shirt was sliding off his shoulders. There was no telling when the shrinking would stop if he didn’t find the counter serum. It was somewhere else on the bench! He had to find where he had left it!
Mason gripped the lab bench and slowly pulled himself up atop. His shirt slid off him leaving him completely naked in the process. That would be embarrassing if anyone saw, but not as embarrassing as anyone who saw what he had done to himself. He was only about two feet tall, easily tall enough to stand on the bench.
The counter serum had to be here somewhere. The bench was filled with various tools as well as a plastic animal cage containing the guinea pig that this was supposed to be tested on. Mason didn’t see the counter serum, he would have sworn he set it down somewhere. Maybe on the other side of the cage? He quickly climbed atop the cage to get a look at the other side. As he did felt his bare foot step in something wet. Looking down he saw more of the serum! That was bad!
He began to shrink even faster due to his second exposure. He quickly hurried up onto the cage before it would get to hard to climb. He was only a foot tall, and then only six inches. He tried to run across the cage but his foot slipped on the plastic bar and he fell down straight into the cage!
He landed in bed of soft wood shavings. He wasn’t alone. What was supposed to be his test subject had been sound asleep next to where he landed. But now she was awake. A few minutes ago the brown and white guinea pig was small enough for Mason to hold in one hand. Now it was the same height as him! At least it was for a moment. Mason was still shrinking… And fast! In just a few seconds he was half the guinea pig’s size.
“E-easy now!” Mason pleaded as he backed away from the guinea pig. “You eat pellets right? Not tiny humans?” He needed to get out of this cage and to the other side of the bench. The serum he needed was there! But now he was worried he was going to be his test subject’s lunch!
“Squeak.” The guinea pig sniffed at Mason and nudged him with his nose. Mason was knocked over by the impact. As he fell over backwards he could only watch in horror as the guinea pig got larger. It only took a few moments for Mason to be as small as one of the guinea pig’s tiny pink paws.
The guinea pig seemed confused by what was going on, and as Mason continued to shrink it soon lost interest in the tiny human. Instead it tried to walk past him more interested in getting pellet shaped food. This was bad news for Mason who was now in danger of being stepped on. He barely managed to roll out of the way of its forepaws. But as he got back up on his feet the guinea pig’s hind paws were now even larger!
Mason squeaked and tried to jump out of the way. He didn’t go very far and collided with one of the guinea pig’s toes that were now as big as him. With the threat of being run over real Mason did his best to climb up the guinea pig’s paw and move for its ankle. He clung desperately to stands of fur as long as his arms as he tried to avoid being tossed off the guinea pig.
As he got smaller the fur became thicker and hard to hold. Mason kept trying to climb higher hoping not to fall off. Before he knew what he was doing he was actually standing with both feet planted on one strand of fur. Here his footing became more steady as the guinea pig seemed to stop moving around. Mason had a brief respite as he gave a sigh of relief.
Then he noticed the other things in the guinea pig’s fur. A huge brown monster with an alien-like body and six legs. Of course she had fleas. Why wouldn’t she!? And Mason was now smaller than a flea! And as he studied the flea he noticed it was getting bigger by the moment. The flea nudged into the fur strand Mason was on. Unable to find a way to grip something so large to him he was knocked down in an instant and landed on the flea’s head.
There were tiny hair like things coming out of the flea’s back. They were the perfect size for Mason to grab on and hang on for dear life. He wasn’t sure what else he could do. All he could do was cling to the flea as he got smaller and smaller. Soon he had to hang on to one of those hairs with both hands, and after a few more moments was able to climb up on top of it and rest his body against it. And he still hadn’t stopped shrinking.
Smaller than a flea what else was there for him to do now? Even if he could somehow make it all the way out of the cage to the other serum he wouldn’t be able to use it. His only hope now was someone would see his discarded clothes, realize what happened and look for him. But… As the tiny hair on the flea got larger and larger Mason realized rescue was unlikely. Microscopic lifeforms were coming into view and his shrinking showed no signs of slowing down. When even amoebas began to look like giant monsters it was hard to expect anyone would see him even under a microscope.
And yet the shrinking still wouldn’t stop.
The End